We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! – Iowa State University Theatre

by Dario Fo

It’s 1974 Italy and inflation and unemployment have collapsed the economy. With the price of groceries going through the roof, what’s a poor Italian girl to do? Stuff bags of food up her sweater and pretend to be pregnant in this sidesplitting satire of course. The protagonists of We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! are driven by their collective hungers to break free from the constraints in which their poverty has confined them.